HercDude

We're straying pretty far from TA, so if the mods want to move this to a more appropriate thread please do. My TA question was answered pretty quick - they can't force me to take an ADSC pact my retainability date, but will force me to set a DOS between now and the end of my current ADSC. They legally can PCS me without inuring an ADSC (sounds unlikely), or find a cushy cubicle at the Died for me that ends before my DOS (probably not all that unlikely). But to answer your question: I'm not interested in the T-6 gig because I have already done a complete tour as a T-6 IP. I loved it. I loved the flying, I loved the instructing (most of the time), the squadron was awesome, and my commanders were awesome. Even the leadership at the Group & Wing level were pretty cool - at least in touch with the trials of the line pilots, something I can not say I have ever really experienced in AMC. If you can get past the location - and some guys can't - being a T-6 IP is a lot of fun. The days are long but I barely noticed, and never really felt like I was working. Hands down my favorite job in the AF has been a T-6 Flt/CC. But living in a remote location with little to do, few job prospects for your spouse, terrible public schools, long days, and crap weather is something you'll have to come to terms with. In my case it was very stressful on my family, and that's something I don't want to revisit. The other piece is that while Columbus was a great place to start a family and raise toddlers, I do not consider it a very good place to raise school age children. I would anticipate the same situation at Vance or Laughlin. So bottom line is I saw a dead end career going back to the T-6, with the added stresses of long days in a bad location. As I said, if that was going to be my 2nd or 3rd assignment and I had not been before I would have eagerly taken it. It's not a fit for me or my family right now. I like my options on the other side of the fence much better. And HeloDude - I would have accepted a non vol to a Staff tour, but I have made it known to my CC and on my ADP that I am not a volunteer for any staff assignment. I am aware what that did to my promotion chances, but I have all the boxes checked. If I do get passed over I at least want to be happy at work and home when it happens - something that seemed unlikely given these 5 choices. And RTU Instructor is no longer an option for legacy C-130 guys. Personally though, flying 5.0s 4 days a week doing the exact same profile every damn day never appealed to me. One of the reasons I enjoyed the Texan so much was that you were constantly progressing a class through the syllabus, so from week-to-week the profiles and level of instruction changed.

I was going to PM, but I'll throw them out there and accept whatever spears fly my way. Bear in mind that I will meet my IPZ O-5 board in less than 2 years, and I have already spent 3 & 1/2 years in AETC teaching TP Stalls, power-pitch-roll, & the WANTS check. The five available were RQ-4 to Beale, MQ-9 to Creech, MQ-1 to Creech, T-6 to Vance and T-6 to Laughlin. Had this been my 1st or 2nd assignment I would have gladly taken either of the last two . I loved my time in the Texan, but to put my family through that - especially when I now have school age children - is not OK with me. And I appreciate what the RPA guys do and realize that these two locations are the best available to them, but remote piloting is something I have zero interest in doing. If there was a cockpit at either one of those locations I would likewise have taken them without batting an eye. But in my mind Vegas with the bros = f**king awesome; Vegas in the minivan = meh I plan on rolling the dice and declining the assignment. If I end up in Kabul for a year then so be it. If they want to waive my ADSC and send me to Vegas for one year then I'll do it with a smile. But I'd rather do that and find out what the civilian world and AFRC have to offer than spend the next 6-9 years of my life doing a job I don't enjoy. As a sidenote, I keep chuckling over the fact that I've been waiting to be offered the bonus for several years because I knew I would take it. Then, the year I am eligible they fail to offer it in any reasonable time frame, while offering me an assignment I'm not willing to take. Had they offered the bonus in March I most likely would have taken it and wouldn't have a say in any of this.

Yeah, this is essentially what is going to happen. If I choose to 7-day opt, my date of separation will be set to the last day of my ADSC from the last class I took. Gives me about an extra year to figure out what to do, should I choose to get out. I hear the airlines are about to hire a bunch of people.......

Couldn't find a better thread for this question - apologies if it has been covered before..... Does anyone have any experience with breaking their ADSC incurred through using TA? My 10 year commitment is up this summer and I just got handed a list of 5 shitty assignments, one of which I will be non-vol'd to. I'm about 90% sure I'll punch rather than taking one, but I only finished my last Master's class a couple months ago. Can they force me to PCS because of the ADSC, or could I repay the money and punch when my UPT ADSC is up? I tried looking it up in 36-2107, but my shoe-fu skills were soundly defeated by that particular reg.

I have always operated under the unwritten rule that if you are at a military base, you talk on UHF and monitor VHF. If you are at a civil field or in the enroute structure you talk on VHF & monitor UHF. I though this was common knowledge.

I tend to rant on interphone when I hear people say dumb shit on the radio - even did it when I was a CP. So one day the smartass I'm flying with chimed in with this: "Ali Center Good morning, CHROME XX, checking in, level at flight level 200 at this time, with the flash." My eyeballs started to bleed.

I do.

The lack of an FE is obviously the reason so many F-16s are landing with the gear up, 1000' short, on the wrong runway. Wait.

Good thing she's wearing a reflective belt. I almost didn't see her.

Iron Man 3 was good. Not as good as the first two, but worth $7. I'll save you the hassle of whipping out your phone as the credits start - there is a 69 second extra clip at the end, but it's not related the next Marvel movie like every other one has been.

Why on Earth would one be in the Air Force and choose not to fly? This circus would not be worth it if I was a penguin.

I want you to take a step back, and literally FUCK YOUR OWN FACE!

In the 3 & 1/2 years I was a T-6 IP, I had one student wash out after making it to Phase 3 (T-1 guy who went to multiple 89s in Phase II). I only remember hearing of 3 people wash out of T-1s, and none from -38s. So sample of one it sounds like about 1 person/yr. at each base. You could not be reclassified to another rated career if you academic average was below ~90%, which usually eliminated guys washing out for poor performance/attitude, but did allow for guys who just couldn't figure out how to land or fly in the pattern.

Which part of the Constitution is being violated here? Without any context whatsoever, I don't think it's possible to say whether this is "unreasonable" or not. If they are going house-to-house doing this indiscriminately , then I would agree that this is unconstitutional. However there is nothing in this video to suggest that the cops here didn't target that house specifically based off of credible intelligence. Can you tell from the video if they had a warrant? They were looking for a bomber and a cop killer - are they supposed to just stand in the middle of the street with a bullhorn and ask nicely for him to quit hiding?

You mean like people on page 2 of this thread?

Absurd. Who is that clown? And "the last time the US saw a bombing attempt like this" wasn't the '93 WTC bombing. That was a truck bomb. This reminds me much more of the 1996 Olympic Park bombing in Atlanta (backpack bomb at a crowded international event), which was perpetrated by a politically motivated individual, which is what most talking heads are speculating.

Patriot's Day is a holiday in two states - Massachusetts and Maine. Waco is in Texas. What, exactly, are you talking about? Again, Patriot's Day is a holiday in Massachusetts and Maine. Oklahoma City is in Oklahoma. Again, what are you referring too? What militia are you talking about? Wait, so you know the motivation behind the bombings? Holy hell - get off BODN and call the FBI right away. They'll want to hear this.

OK, let me clarify. I know why we are currently heavily invested in Korea. There are a ton of American's there - got it. I'm not suggesting right now we should be ignoring the North. This is what I'm getting at. My point was in the second paragraph - why do we have 30,000 people there? And if they weren't there, would it really impact us when the North starts acting like a brat? Would they even do it in the first place? And I understand the importance of the Pacific - the 21st century is going to be about the Pacific. But could we not keep an eye on it from San Diego, Seattle, Alaska, Guam, Japan, etc.? We used to have a large presence in the Philippines, and now we don't. Is the world less safe? Are the Philippines less safe? Is that our problem?

With the Cold War over, and South Korea possessing a modern, well-equipped military that is no longer threatened by China, can any one explain why we give a shit about what is happening in Korea (other than we have a ton of troops there)? More to the point, if we withdrew a majority of our troops from South Korea, and allowed them to defend themselves (which they can do), what reason would we have to give a shit what Kim Jong-un is doing? His rants and saber-rattling are meant for a domestic audience in the first place, so if we are mostly out of the picture, doesn't that make it a better situation for all parties? I'm not saying we abandon an ally - just that I don't see why we have 30,000 troops there. I know why we fought in Korea in 1950. But the world - and especially South Korea - is a lot different now. What am I missing?

Truth. You are going to have to learn to deal with weather and crosswinds at some point in your career - why not go ugly early? And since everyone in your class is dealing with the same thing, you're not at any disadvantage. UPT sucks, and it's awesome - no matter where you go.

Close. It's Maryland Educational College University of Maryland Online University, or MECUMOnU

What the hell is wrong with that guy? Why does he feel like it's his job to play mommy to 8,000,000 people?